Christine Turner Merrill email: ctmerrillATgmailDOTcom
I think as we talk about making a home, we need certain principles, we
need certain skills, and the lack of homemaking skills—and I don’t just
mean baking bread—has created, I think, an emotional homelessness that
has some of the very same byproducts as street homelessness. People who
do not have a place to go that has the Spirit, that has the emotional
stability, that has the principles that we’ve been talking about, have
a lot of the same problems of despair, of turning to drugs or
immorality, that street homeless people have. And we have an
opportunity, mothers and fathers working together, to create an
environment, to be home
makers, to create an environment that will make a home. Home is not just a place; it’s a feeling, and it’s a spirit.
- Susan W. Tanner
Features:
About me: I live in Lafayette, IN. My husband and I are both gradates of Purdue University.
I got my Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering as a member of the
Cooling Technologies Research Center,
and I still work for the Center a few hours a week from home. It's a
great little job for a busy mom like me! I belong to
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,
and as you probably know, I love to talk to people about my church. So
if
you ever want to ask me about it, just make sure you have a little time!
I have a husband Marriner (old), a son Lige (5), daughters Ellis (3), and Lillian (born Oct 28). ;)
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Family Picture, July 2009
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Poll- October
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June Poll Results: Do you use Twitter?
- Yes - 0%
- No -71%
- What's that? - 29%
May Poll Results: What imaginary would would you like to live in?
- Hogwarts - 10%
- Narnia - 60%
- Middle Earth - 0%
- Other - 0%
- Nowhere but here - 30%
April Poll Results: What is your favorite kind of bean?
- Pinto - 20%
- Kidney - 20%
- Black Eyed Peas - 10%
- Black - 30%
- None of the above - 20%
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